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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to second the Motion. It comes at the right time when this country is at a cross-road in terms of the security of our learning institutions. Hardly a day passes without a report of incidences bordering on insecurity in our schools, particularly in our boarding schools. I thank Hon. Mbui for tabling this Motion. There are all indicators that there are security lapses in our school systems. National security cannot be complete in this country without the safety of learners in our schools. The global requirement for delivery of quality education is that of safe learning institutions. Our learners must be safe. Our children and teachers must be safe in the learning institutions. The capacity and ability to be accountable for the security of every learner and school is inevitable for any nation. Kenya, with its own great capacity to do a lot of work in terms of ICT and the investment that it has in this area, it is inevitable that in this age, era and time, we must install and invest in security surveillance equipment in schools. We have noted quite a number of reports bordering on insecurity - as it has been mentioned - in a number of schools. Initially, there were fires in schools and burning of dormitories. For the last two years, the focus has been on dormitories. The reports that we get is that of electrical faults. The question we ask is why school dormitories always catch fire when the students are present. Why not when schools are closed? There are all indications that those are acts of arson. It has been completely impossible to nab the culprits. Schools’ management have been unable to account for this and bring any of the culprits to book. In the last couple of days, there have been issues bordering on the rape of our girls in the dormitories. There are many narratives around this. It is difficult to account. It is completely impossible for principals and teachers to take action. Teachers have remained victims at the end of the process in situations they cannot account for. Truly, they lack capacity to do so. In the case of Moi Nairobi Girls’ School, which has been mentioned, there are CCTV cameras installed but The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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